Overview
Description
Course gives undergraduate international students an opportunity to develop academic English language & study skills needed to succeed in university courses without English language support. Students practice discourse skills & basic research skills, develop genre awareness of typical academic writing tasks, improve their listening comprehension & notetaking skills, & increase their active academic vocabulary.
Units
0 units
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- identify the main idea and specific details in a text or lecture on an academic or technical topic.
- apply reading strategies to academic texts of increasing difficulty, identifying an author’s viewpoint and specific details that support it.
- take and use organized notes to understand and recall academic material.
- compose a clear, well-organized essay with a thesis that responds fully and appropriately to the assignment.
- conduct basic research to identify credible and relevant sources.
- write logical arguments based on sound reasoning that incorporate evidence from identified sources.
- identify and utilize a variety of patterns of development and organization in written texts.
- revise and edit own writing to produce texts that use correct sentence structure, agreement, and verb tense.
- format academic writing according to chosen conventions correctly (MLA, APA, etc.).
- apply listening strategies to comprehend and check understanding of academic lectures and videos.
- actively participate in group discussions, encouraging others’ viewpoints, maintaining focus, and connecting new points to previously stated ideas.
- summarize main ideas and opinions on passages of text or speech, and ask for and provide elaboration, clarification or explanation in a discussion.
- incorporate new academic vocabulary in writing and discussions.
- give a clear, well-organized presentation on an academic topic, demonstrating awareness of audience.